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THE GUILLOTINE'S SURE WORK; DETAILS OF THE EXECUTION OF VAILLANT, THE ANARCHIST. " Long Live Anarchy!" the Last Words of the Condemned Man -- He Refuses the Ministrations of a Chaplain and Walks to His Death Without a Tremor -- The Body, After a Pretended Burial. Turned Over to the Doctors for Dissection.

PARIS, Feb. 5. -- With the cry of "Death to the Bourgeoisie!" "Long live Anarchy!" Vailiant, the Anarchist whose name has been on the lips of Parisians ever since the 9th of December, when he threw the bomb in the Chamber of Deputies, paid this morning the penalty of his crime.

February 06, 1894

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